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One Woman's Path to Leadership - Elizabeth "Betsy" Hoffman
4:00 PM – 220-230 Scheman Building, ISU Center - Elizabeth "Betsy" Hoffman has been president of the three-campus, 52,000-student University of Colorado system since 2000. She previously served as Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and as Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State University. President Hoffman earned a doctorate in history from the University of Pennsylvania and a second doctorate in economics from the California Institute of Technology. She holds an undergraduate degree in history from Smith College and an master's degree in history from the University of Pennsylvania.

TSUNAMI VICTIMS MEMORIAL
4:30 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - A campus memorial service will be held to remember the victims of the South Asian earthquake and tsunami. The Saman Dance from Aceh will be performed by Indonesian Student Association members. Speakers include President Gregory Geoffroy, Ames Mayor Ted Tedesco, GSB President Sophia Magill, Tahira Hira, Roy Salcedo, and others to be announced. The event will close with a candle-lighting on the Terrace of the Memorial Union. Tsunami Relief Project volunteers will collect donations of cash and checks around campus through Friday, January 21.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Celebration 2005 - COMMUNITY BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION
7:00 PM – Boys and Girls Club of Ames - 210 South Fifth - Celebrate with song, story and birthday cake. An Ames tradition! Parking behind 20th Century Bowling.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Celebration 2005 - Bodies and Souls Moving for Justice
3:00 PM – Collegiate United Methodist Church, 2622 Lincoln Way, Ames, Iowa - A community gathering to engage Martin Luther King's challenges concerning racism, militarism and poverty.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Birthday Party
12:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Members of the groups Shy of a Dozen and the Gospel Soul Innovators will perform. Speakers include Provost Ben Allen, Black Student Alliance President Shelley Whitehead and Government of the Student Body President Sophia Magill. Birthday cake graciously donated by the Campus Dining Services.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Celebration 2005 - Concert: LET FREEDOM RING
11:50 PM – Central Campus - A carillon concert in honor of Dr. King with Dr. Tin-Shi Tam, carilloneur.

Iraq: Journey of Hope and Peace - Peggy Gish
12:00 PM – Cardinal Room, MU - Peggy Gish went to Iraq in an attempt to prevent war, but on March 20, 2003, the bombs began falling on Baghdad. Peggy Gish tells her personal and moving story of the Iraq before, during, and after the 2003 war. She is a Christian Peacemaker Teams worker who has spent considerable time in Iraq over the past few years. In 2003 she was awarded the Yoko Tada peace award in Japan for her work in Iraq.

Alien Corn: Agriculture and Intercultural Communication - Ron Scollon
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Ron Scollon is a professor of sociolinguistics at Georgetown University and editor for Visual Communications. His current research focuses on discourses of food in the world system, and he will use examples from the project to discuss how intercultural communication factors into global issues of corn production and distribution. Selected Publications: Discourse and Technology: Multimodal Discourse Analysis; Nexus Analysis: Discourse and the Emerging Internet; Professional Communication in International Settings; and Intercultural Communication: A Discourse Approach. Quentin Johnson Lecture in Linguistics

A Boy, A Girl, A Virus and the Relationship That Happened Anyway - Shawn Decker
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Shawn Decker was born with hemophilia and acquired the HIV virus from a clotting factor used to halt his frequent nosebleeds. He writes columns for POZ Magazine about his experiences. Gwenn Barringer worked as a case manager for AIDS Services Group, a care and advocacy group

U.S. Foreign Policy in the Second Bush Administration
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - A Panel Discussion with: Jim McCormick is author of American Foreign Policy and Process, co-editor of Domestic Sources of American Foreign Policy; and chair of the ISU Political Science Department. Eric M. McGlinchey is an expert on political Islam in central Asia, a member of the Center for Strategic and International Studies Program on New Approaches to Russian Security, and assistant professor in the ISU Political Science Department. Richard Mansbach is the author and coauthor of a number of books including The Global Puzzle: Issues and Actors in World Politics; Polities: Authority, Identities and Change; and The State, Conceptual Chaos, and the Future of Internationall Relations, and professor in the ISU Political Science Department. Steffen Schmidt, University Professor in Political Science and director of the Latin American Studies Program at ISU, co-author of American Government and Politics Today, and host of "The Dr. Politics Show" on public radio.